Andrei Ioniță

Andrei Ionuț Ioniță (born 1 January 1994 in Bucharest) is a Romanian cellist. He won first prize in the cello division of the 2015 International Tchaikovsky Competition.[1]

Andrei Ioniță
Born1 January 1994
Bucharest, Romania
GenresClassical
Occupation(s)Musician
Instrument(s)Cello

Ioniță began studying piano when he was five years old and started cello lessons three years later.[2] He studies at the Berlin University of the Arts under Jens Peter Maintz. In 2009, he won the David Popper International Cello Competition, and in 2013 won first prize in the Aram Khatchaturian International Competition. A year later, he took second place at the 63rd ARD International Music Competition[3] and the Emanuel Feuermann Competition.

Ioniță has already performed concertos with the Münchner Philharmoniker, Deutsches Symphonie-Orchester Berlin, Mariinsky Orchestra, St. Petersburg Philharmonic Orchestra, Czech Philharmonic,[4] Radio-Symphonieorchester Wien and Tokyo Philharmonic Orchestra; working with conductors such as Valeriy Gergiev, Mikhail Pletnev and Nicholas Collon.

The 2017–18 season saw Ioniță debut with The Hallé and San Diego Symphony[5] (both with Cristian Macelaru), BBC Philharmonic (with Yan Pascal Tortelier), Royal Scottish National Orchestra[6] (with Karl-Heinz Steffens), Rochester Philharmonic and Hamburger Symphoniker.[7] He returned to the MDR Sinfonieorchester in Leipzig and toured Europe with the NFM Wrocław Philharmonic.

In recitals Ioniță has performed at Carnegie Hall, on tour in Japan, and at the Kissinger Sommer, Mecklenburg-Vorpommern and Schleswig-Holstein festivals. This season includes a return to Carnegie Hall,[8] his Wigmore Hall debut, and dates at the Verbier Festival[9] and Konzerthaus Berlin.

Other appearances include an artistic residence at the 2018 Alpenarte Festival[10] in Austria, a tour with the BBC Philharmonic[11] (the UK and Romania), concerts in Denmark (Yuri Temirkanov and the Danish National Symphony Orchestra[12]), Russia (with the Russian National Orchestra and Mikhail Pletnev) and the United States (a tour with Cristian Măcelaru and the Romanian Youth Orchestra[13]).

Ioniță is a scholarship recipient of the Deutsche Stiftung Musikleben and performs on a violoncello made by Giovanni Battista Rogeri from Brescia in 1671, generously on loan from the foundation.[14]

References
  1. "Andrei Ionuț Ioniță, XV International Tchaikovsky Competition". tch15.medici.tv. Retrieved 2 July 2015.
  2. "2017–18 Guest Artists – Andrei Ionita". Rochester Philharmonic Orchestra. Archived from the original on 23 January 2018. Retrieved 22 January 2018.
  3. Rundfunk, Bayerischer (15 September 2014). "ARD Music Competition : Prize Winners 2014 | BR.de" (in German). Retrieved 17 July 2018.
  4. "Andrei Ioniţă and his cello dreams come true – Czech Philharmonic Blog". Magazín České filharmonie. 1 February 2017. Retrieved 17 July 2018.
  5. "Cellist Andrei Ioniță Amazes in Elgar Cello Concerto with the San Diego Symphony". San Diego Story. Retrieved 19 July 2018.
  6. "Andrei Ioniță debuts with the Royal Scottish National Orchestra – Askonas Holt". Askonas Holt. 7 February 2018. Retrieved 17 July 2018.
  7. "Sun, 8 Oct 2017 – Symphoniker Hamburg / Sylvain Cambreling – Laeiszhalle Hamburg – Elbphilharmonie". www.elbphilharmonie.de. Archived from the original on 17 July 2018. Retrieved 17 July 2018.
  8. "Andrei Ioniţă, CelloNaoko Sonoda, Piano". www.carnegiehall.org. Retrieved 17 July 2018.
  9. "Andrei IONIŢĂ & Seong-Jin Cho Concert". www.verbier.ch. Archived from the original on 17 July 2018. Retrieved 17 July 2018.
  10. "Das neue Musikprojekt im Bregenzerwald/Schwarzenberg – :alpenarte". www.alpenarte.at (in German). 24 April 2017. Retrieved 19 July 2018.
  11. "BBC Philharmonic". BBC Music Events. Retrieved 19 July 2018.
  12. "Temirkanov & Musorgskij – DR Koncerthuset – Læs mere og køb billet". Koncerthuset (in Danish). Archived from the original on 19 July 2018. Retrieved 19 July 2018.
  13. "National Symphony Orchestra of Romania". www.stnj.org. Archived from the original on 19 July 2018. Retrieved 19 July 2018.
  14. "#TCH15 – Andrei Ionuț Ioniță – First Prize". tch15.medici.tv. Retrieved 19 January 2020.
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